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Show 5 WHAT'S THE USE? , The performance of the Salt Lake City Coun cil ought to be a notice to the Gentiles of this city to do one of two things when the next election comes around either to unite and elect Gentile officers or to remain away from the polls and let I the Saints have full swing. The Mormons in the ' Council have fully demonstrated that they are 1 bound by no party obligations, that they care nothing for the oaths they have taken, that the best interests of the city are not subjects of con- Isideration by them'; that they are there simply to obey orders from the First Presidency of the l' Mormon Church as delivered orally to them or through the medium of the Deseret News. In this 1 respect they are not different from the Mormons in the Legislature that just adjourned. They manifest man-ifest the same honor and the same adhereence f to principle that do the high officers of the organ ization who promised that for the boon of stately state-ly hood they would withdraw from politics and per-Imit per-Imit the people to adopt and carry out American methods. They made the promises, intending to break them, and by the peculiar reasoning of the alien crowd this was justifiable, as much so as for a general to make a feint or mask a battery. That is, they are aliens in heart and have no use for the United States government except to work it for everything possible. Hence it is idle to inveigh in-veigh against the poor wretches in the Council who are oblivious to the fact that they have been placed in charge of the business of a great city that should require their best services, that they have taken solemn oaths to perform that business to the best of their ability, and all the time had but one purpose in view to obey counsel. A stream cannot rise higher than its source, and when the source is befouled the waters below be-low will surely be tainted. The Councilman who made the most noise on Monday night was one who, in a former Council, permitted valuable interests of the city to be forfeited for-feited rather than to perform his sworn duty, because be-cause that duty was pointed out to him by an en- I glneer that did not belong to his church. Still he it was triumphantly elected by his brother slaves. II I What use is there in trying to deal with a crowd It f of that kind, without party allegiance, honor or M honesty? There is nothing to do but to band to-Bl to-Bl gether and beat them at the polls or give up the I I ' fight, let them have full sway and have city .affairs .af-fairs drift as they did for forty years prior to Gentile redemption. Of course this showing is not much calculated to induce strangers to come to Utah to settle, but it is the truth, and ought to be told. Gentiles should, by this time, fully understand that it is senseless to try by fair dealing to expect fail' treatment in return. A single purpose dominates this dominant church which purpose fs shadowed forth in the oath to avenge the prophets, which, reduced to plain English, is open hate of free government and a determination to be a supreme law unto itself. And its slaves are ever ready to obey its behests. |